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Should I ship an Incremental Political Sim?
Political Sim + Incremental
Only 17 developers shipped an Incremental Political Sim in the last 2 years, too few for firm odds: the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.; the top game by est. revenue, Age of Clicks, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 16 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $830, ×1.8 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $50. Revenue is up 125% on the market; 16 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $832 (exactly $832) |
| Top 25% | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) |
| Top 5% | $184k (exactly $183,938) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 42 |
| Announced | 16 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
momentum: how a niche's revenue percentiles and developer count moved between two equal, adjacent periods, divided by the market's own move. See method., 12 months: revenue up 125% on the market, supply 15% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 19%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Political Sim
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Incremental
- effort 1 / 10 · high · formulas and upgrade tables
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Political Sim, Incremental; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Strategy, Idler, Management
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Funny, Hand-drawn
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 62% positive over 785 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 16 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Political Sim with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + DetectiveFair
- + Psychological HorrorFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Board GameFair
- + TabletopFair
- + CombatPoor odds
- + Sci-fiPoor odds
- + FuturisticPoor odds
- + 4XPoor odds
- + Cold WarPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + SpacePoor odds
Comparable games
Immortal Family 2024 · $509k 
JudgeSim 2024 · $289k 
Age of Clicks 2026 · EA · $184k 
Citizen of Rome - Dynasty Ascendant 2019 · $70k 
Mr. Billion: Idle Rich Tycoon 2025 · $16k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Immortal Family | older | $13.99 | 1,213 54% | 36k | $509k (exactly $509,096) | 一起来修仙工作室 |
| | JudgeSim | older | $6.99 | 1,376 84% | 41k | $289k (exactly $288,547) | DelusionArt Studio |
| | Age of Clicks | · EA | $12.99 | 472 65% | 14k | $184k (exactly $183,938) | David Ius |
| | Citizen of Rome - Dynasty Ascendant | older | $9.99 | 235 80% | 7.1k | $70k (exactly $70,430) | Citizen of Life Games |
| | Mr. Billion: Idle Rich Tycoon | $6.99 | 77 53% | 2.3k | $16k (exactly $16,147) | U Master | |
 | Drink Pro Tycoon | older | $6.99 | 69 40% | 2.1k | $14k (exactly $14,469) | World Map Tycoon |
 | Social Credit Simulator | older | $4.99 | 90 77% | 2.7k | $13k (exactly $13,473) | Fasu Studio |
 | Ancient Russian Life Simulator | older | $0.99 | 385 95% | 12k | $11k (exactly $11,434) | GosDev Production |
 | Nuice Industries | · EA | $7.99 | 25 96% | 750 | $6.0k (exactly $5,992) | CastleWind |
 | Носковраздор | $0.99 | 136 51% | 4.1k | $4.0k (exactly $4,039) | BMBK Games | |
 | Election Tycoon: Trump vs Harris | $9.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) | World Map Tycoon | |
 | MEGACITY | · EA | $9.99 | 12 83% | 360 | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) | Luke Wood |
 | CheeseMoney | $2.99 | 13 23% | 390 | $1.2k (exactly $1,166) | Liang ZhiYa, Global People Holdings Gro… (Liang ZhiYa, Global People Holdings Group LLC, Song-Ya Network Systems (Guangzhou) Co Ltd) | |
 | The Syndicate: Classified Operations | $4.99 | 7 57% | 210 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | A and I Software | |
 | Dear His Majesty | $0.99 | 28 64% | 840 | $832 (exactly $832) | huiFeng | |
 | 墨缇斯：霾影季度 | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | 青礼社Bendetizoin |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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